page_title: Deer Lake (British Columbia)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Deer Lake (British Columbia) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Deer Lake, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
context_page_description: Deer Lake is a lake in central Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Deer Lake is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna and features a number of walking trails. These trails connect the lake and its surrounding forests and fields to a number of amenities, including a boat launch, picnic sites, a playground, washrooms, the Burnaby Art Gallery, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby Village Museum, and Century Gardens, as well as the surrounding community.
context_section_description: Deer Lake and the surrounding park is a highly altered habitat. The vegetation natural to the area is temperate rainforest dominated by conifers such as Tsuga heterophylla, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Thuja plicata.  Most of this forest, whose trees were considered particularly tall for the Lower Mainland, was logged in the first few years of the 20th century. While rainbow trout, sculpin, and crayfish were likely native to Deer Lake, most of the aquatic animals are introduced species. These invasive species include bullfrog, ictalurid catfish and carp.
  The Legend of Deer Lake, as told by E. Pauline Johnson, is a Coast Salish tale about a hidden waterway between False Creek and Deer Lake. It was discovered by a young Indian, the first chief Capilano, who speared a "king" harbour seal in False Creek with his elk antler spear with western red cedar line.  The seal escaped through a hidden underground creek, and he spent months looking for it by the shore.  One day he was "beckoned" inland by what turned out to be the flames of a forest fire.  On the shore of Deer Lake he found the remains of the seal and recovered his spear, and with it, his prowess as a hunter.
  Today there is a condominium development overlooking the lake where Oakalla Prison, a maximum security prison farm, once existed.
  Deer Lake School (K-12) located nearby is named for the lake.
caption: Deer Lake
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